The Office of Small Business and Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Services (OSDS): Active link…I have only changed the name of the hyperlink below to reflect the office’s current name.

Consider being a Small Business Applicant if the business is:

• Independently owned and operated,
• Not dominant in field of operation,
• Principal office located in California,
• Owners (officers, if a corporation) domiciled in California, and

Including affiliates, be either, a business with 100 or fewer employees; an average annual gross receipts of $14 million or less, over the last three tax years;

A manufacturer* with 100 or fewer employees; or,

A microbusiness. A small business will automatically be designated as a microbusiness, if gross annual receipts are less than $3,500,000; or the small business is a manufacturer with 25 or fewer employees.

For Small Business Certification purposes, a manufacturer is a business that is both of the following: (1) Primarily engaged in the chemical or mechanical transformation of raw materials or processed substances into new products.

(2) Classified between Codes 31 to 339999, inclusive, of the North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) Manual, published by the United States Census Bureau, 2007 edition.

Consider being a Disabled Veteran Applicant if you are:

• A veteran of the U.S. military, naval, or air service,
• Have a service-connected disability of at least 10% or more,
• Reside in California,

• At least 51% of the business is owned by one or more disabled veterans,

• The daily business operations is managed and controlled by one or more disabled veterans

• The home office is located in the U.S. and is not a branch or subsidiary of a foreign based business or corporation, and

• If the business is a limited liability company it is 100% owned by disabled veterans.